Monday, October 29, 2012

These are a couple of yokai inspired spooky swamp dwellers for Halloween. I had been impressed by the designs of Japanese netsuke in the V&A museum London then later saw an incredible exhibition in Paris on the supernatural yokai of Japanese culture. The designs are based on traditional Japanese deities & goblins.

The rough sketches above developed into these more abstract painted sketches I did for fun as I was painting the larger one

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